Software Developers, Moods, Emotions, and Performance

2014/05/31 by Daniel Graziotin, Xiaofeng Wang, Pekka Abrahamsson · 2 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Psychology · #Complex Systems and Decision Making #Computer science #Creativity in Education and Neuroscience #Happiness #Operating system #Personal software process #Productivity #Psychology #Service and Product Innovation #Software #Software construction #Software development #Software engineering #Software peer review #World Wide Web #cs.SE

paper · pdf · doi:10.1109/ms.2014.94

published as IEEE Software, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 24-27, 2014 · 6 pages. Accepted (before copyediting and typesetting) version

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Abstract

Studies show that software developers' happiness pays off when it comes to productivity.

Citations

• The effect of music listening on work performance

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• Towards a Theory of Affect and Software Developers' Performance
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